At first I thought the quoted text was just him having ChatGPT write his tweets for him. But then I clicked through and saw the video of him actually speaking it to the camera. He was probably just reading it off a screen, but seeing a dead-eyed person earnestly parroting ChatGPTese like that was one of the creepiest things I've seen this year.
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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That's just developing schizophrenia. ChatGPT is unrelated.
a wave of people who are suffering severe breaks with reality as they spiral into the obsessive use of ChatGPT or other AI products
At some point, ChatGPT is the only “person“ who will still talk to a spiraling person. Plus, LLMs are notorious for agreeing to anything, causing a reinforcing effect.
I have no doubt that this is real, and we can expect to see much, much more of it.
LLMs, by their very nature, not only can but will, if so prompted, reinforce delusions.
The current "AIs" do not think or reason in any way, shape or form. They have no understanding of their output because they're not actually intelligemt, or even aware. They've just been programmed to combine words with other words in ways that are statistically likely to be relevant to the prompts they're given.
And that means that a person who's sufficiently determined can, without conscious intent, feed an "AI" prompts that will lead it to treat whatever delusion they feed it as real, and even to surround it with enough other strings of coincidentally meaningful words and phrases that it appears, to the incautious mind, to be revelatory.
LLMs generate signal shaped noise.
Transformers were originally made for translation not whatever it's currently shoehorned into.
AI pushers should follow the drug dealers' rule. never use the merchandise.
I mean I'm all for these idiots spiraling down into LLM driven psychosis, at least that makes their insanity plainly visible instead of cloaked behind a veneer of futurism
This is just what happens when you abuse ~~drugs~~ artificial intelligence.
Don't get high on your own supply
Remember in the movie the Matrix. He gives the guy something and he says "My own personal Jesus Christ".
Mescaline, man. It's the only way to fly.
Someone to here your prayers, someone who's there.
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
There is "someone" there now and it's pretty good at making you feel that someone really understands what you think, at last ...
Even while working in a more tech oriented environment, after solving tasks, it gets out of line, somewhat. For instance, it said i should take a few hours off right now and enjoy some me time, because i worked like a champ.
I mean, sure, if my boss would be the one saying that. But he's the one that forced us to integrate AI into our workflow in the first place.
Something more and more people are experiencing at work, i suppose.